Editing Casper (given name) (section)

==Origins==
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The name is derived from Gaspar which in turn is from an ancient [[Aramaic language|Chaldean]] word, "gizbar", which according to [[Strong's Concordance]] means "treasurer".<ref>{{Strong-number|Hebrew word #1489|H|1489}} in [[Strong's Concordance]]</ref> The word "gizbar" appears in the Hebrew version of the [[Old Testament]] [[Book of Ezra]] (1:8). In fact, the modern [[Hebrew]] word for "treasurer" is still {{Transliteration|he|gizbar}} ({{wikt-lang|he|גזבר}}). By the 1st century B.C. the [[Septuagint]] gave a Greek translation of "gizbar" in Ezra 1:8 as "gasbarinou" (literally, "son of Gasbar"). The transition from "Gizbar" to "Caspar" and "Kaspar" can thus be summarized as: Gizbar→Gasbar→Gaspar→Caspar→Kaspar... with "C" being a misreading of the manuscript "G" and "K" having the same phonetic value as "C".

There are numerous modern variations such as [[Gaspar]] (Catalan, Portuguese and Spanish), [[Gaspare]] (Italian), [[Gaspard (disambiguation)|Gaspard]] (French), Kaspar (Dutch, German), Kašpar (Czech), Casper (Dutch, English), [[Caspar]] (Dutch), Kacper (Polish), Kasperi (Finnish), [[Kasper (given name)|Kasper]] (Danish, Swedish), Gáspár (Hungarian), Гаспар (Russian) and Kaspars (Latvian).

[[File:Ravenna Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo 3 Wise men.jpg|thumb|The Three Wise men in Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna (Italy)]]

By the 6th century, the name "Gaspar" was recorded in mosaic at the [[Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo]] in Ravenna, Italy as one of the [[Three Wise Men#Traditional names for the Three Magi|traditional names]] assigned by [[folklore]] to the anonymous [[Magi]] mentioned in the [[Gospel of Matthew]] account of the [[Nativity of Jesus]]. The letter "G" in the name Gaspar was clearly different from the letter "C" used elsewhere, suggesting that the name Gaspar preceded the name Caspar, and not the other way around as some have supposed.

The Western tradition of the name ''Gaspar'' also derives from an early 6th century Greek manuscript, [[Gaspar]]
*Gosper
*[[Kaspar]]
*[[Kasper (disambiguation)|Kasper]]
*Kosper